01-15-2016, 07:23 AM
i decided to make my own battery box for this setup, i still need to get the 3 prong piece i saw someone post earlier in the thread, and the battery overheat fuse things between each battery just in case for the battery circuit box. anyways, what i am planning on doing though is to take 3 of the four battery slots and use those in parallel to have 9600 mah, while i have a usb hub on battery power from the fourth slot using an old circuit for a different single celled 18650 battery pack. although yes i could probably use all four of them in parallel on this pack, i don't believe i would be able to power the usb hub with all the devices hooked up to it, and the pine64 properly running at full tilt. i'll use a regular rocker switch or something to cut between the circuit on the usb hub for a custom box and what not im going to make, paint, and polish but that's a different thread.
for the powered portion of this, basically the part that has the led readout for the remaining battery portion is for a 4 pack of 18650 batteries inside a case that would fit it also sold on ebay elsewhere in a kit that's like 10$ usd, so the battery drain on this will reach the 2 amp threshold giving it about 4.2 hours or so with these batteries. the reason i picked these toosell batteries is because i bought the green ones that are only 2600 mah and have used them to great effect already in other projects including charging my tablet and phone with them, so i know these are not only good for phones, but they have a low discharge rate on them meaning they are less likely to heat up as they are being used or charged (although accidents can and do happen in any manufacturing process or other conditions).
i feel this will give me quite a good length of play on this machine, given that i bought 8 of them, i can swap them out when it runs low after about 4 hours running it playing high intensity games. hopefully this would allow me to play something like league of legends or dota 2 or some other game that i can run at extremely low settings while on the go or at a parents house or something (if that's even possible for those two games, but at least you know what i mean by full tilt)
the batteries. i have used the 2600 mah green ones, they fit any other thing that would require an 18650 as being a flat top does not affect the placement of the batteries at all, these are 3200mah
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141460652616
the battery box, you could pay more for ones to show up sooner, but i bought the one shipping in march soooo and i needed my own wiring scheme
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151681864358
this has one port for 5v 2.1a (tablet) and one for 5v 1a (most phones or could double as your usb hub power port) don't know if it can put out 3.1a total which is why i bought the previous item battery box and am using a old battery charger circuit board for the usb hub to power it
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231371589575
i hope this helps you guys, as those other batteries would work if they had enough output juice for the dollar, but to be honest you can basically use any portable battery that outputs 2.1a at 5v that you can buy from china for cheap or whatever, just don't expect to get a ton of juice from it for too long. you get what you pay for (except in this case this machine is awesome, the pine64)
i did spring for the 29$ pine64+ so it's basically a laptop but gimped a bit because of the ARM and other small things.
for the powered portion of this, basically the part that has the led readout for the remaining battery portion is for a 4 pack of 18650 batteries inside a case that would fit it also sold on ebay elsewhere in a kit that's like 10$ usd, so the battery drain on this will reach the 2 amp threshold giving it about 4.2 hours or so with these batteries. the reason i picked these toosell batteries is because i bought the green ones that are only 2600 mah and have used them to great effect already in other projects including charging my tablet and phone with them, so i know these are not only good for phones, but they have a low discharge rate on them meaning they are less likely to heat up as they are being used or charged (although accidents can and do happen in any manufacturing process or other conditions).
i feel this will give me quite a good length of play on this machine, given that i bought 8 of them, i can swap them out when it runs low after about 4 hours running it playing high intensity games. hopefully this would allow me to play something like league of legends or dota 2 or some other game that i can run at extremely low settings while on the go or at a parents house or something (if that's even possible for those two games, but at least you know what i mean by full tilt)
the batteries. i have used the 2600 mah green ones, they fit any other thing that would require an 18650 as being a flat top does not affect the placement of the batteries at all, these are 3200mah
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141460652616
the battery box, you could pay more for ones to show up sooner, but i bought the one shipping in march soooo and i needed my own wiring scheme
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151681864358
this has one port for 5v 2.1a (tablet) and one for 5v 1a (most phones or could double as your usb hub power port) don't know if it can put out 3.1a total which is why i bought the previous item battery box and am using a old battery charger circuit board for the usb hub to power it
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231371589575
i hope this helps you guys, as those other batteries would work if they had enough output juice for the dollar, but to be honest you can basically use any portable battery that outputs 2.1a at 5v that you can buy from china for cheap or whatever, just don't expect to get a ton of juice from it for too long. you get what you pay for (except in this case this machine is awesome, the pine64)
i did spring for the 29$ pine64+ so it's basically a laptop but gimped a bit because of the ARM and other small things.
